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buttesilver said:

Exactly. "Oh look, Apple sucks and we're here to show them how it's done". Yeah, remember /var google???

rob53 said:

Already fixed so why did Google bring it up?

Why are you guys so defensive? This is standard practice. It’s no kind of attack on Apple.

hexclock said:

I think it's getting the point where a mistrust of all developers is going to manifest, unfairly or not. When updated my old metronome app and it wanted me to make an account to use it, I just deleted it. 

This is the inevitability, yes. People are slowly catching on, but their options have been taken away at the same time. Financial hardship makes “free” seem worth the risk even when they know the basic facts. It will continue, minus the default trust. Who trusts corporations anymore? The few people who’ve never had a single difficulty controlling their experiences as yet in their lives...?

You have enough lying politicians and lawyers, people label them ALL as liars. You have enough lying developers and companies, people label them ALL as liars. It has taken a while, and still isn’t complete, but the fact that corporations cannot be trusted is slowly seeping into general cultural awareness.

I myself feel little more than contempt for the computer industry most of the time because ive worked inside it and been a customer of it for much of my life. I’ve been mistreated too many times (by even developers and companies with claims of high-minded ideals), while watching good products get ruined by mindless MBA management and Wall Street gambling and greed.

To find that data-mining is actually “codified” by capitalism as the next big thing, using customers’ / users’ content and activities as the biggest capitalist gold mine of all, and knowing that even an ethical company can be quickly made unethical just by being “publicly owned” just kills any ability I once had to trust anyone at all in this industry (or any other).

The economic system we have here is all about exploitation and advertising. From the communications tools, to the “news” programming. Top to bottom, it’s abuse and exploitation. We have an incredibly broken society.

seanismorris said:

I wonder what infection rate would be if all Mac software had to be installed through the App Store...

That is an untenable scenario. There are many practical cases of needing to be able to tell Mac OS “open anyway” in the security settings. Number one is developers. Number two is independent and/or open source software.

yuck9 said:

I know. Let's not fix os problems, let's add more emoji and maybe they will forget the problems we can't fix. 

The Unicode consortium has nothing at all to do with Apple’s unwillingness to fix bugs.

Another nonsense patent just for the potential to sue if someone else makes something similar. This looks awful. Functionally and aesthetically.